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by kaiabwpdjqn 7y ago
What’s been going on in Shanghai? How serious has the lockdown been?
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by kaiabwpdjqn 7y ago
So here’s my question. China seems to have done a good job locking down Beijing and preventing an outbreak there. They did not do a good job in Wuhan. Per what you have described above, doesn’t it seem probable that Beijing will see a resur
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by kaiabwpdjqn 7y ago
Spanish Flu disagrees with you
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by kaiabwpdjqn 7y ago
And what if China is wrong, lying, or only temporarily correct, causing the virus to resurface when society resumes?
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by kaiabwpdjqn 7y ago
There’s not much right vs left yet. It’s just the Democrats figuring out who their candidate will be. The pandemic has a very small effect on the US right now. Things are closing but mostly in anticipation of the near future. Almost none of
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by kaiabwpdjqn 7y ago
> Do you really think some moron bumbled his way into the most powerful office in the world? Yes, and in light of anecdotes of how decisions are made in the current administration: double yes
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by kaiabwpdjqn 7y ago
The sky is mostly empty space when, and only when, there are not flying taxis at sufficient scale for society to bat an eye
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by kaiabwpdjqn 7y ago
CFR in Italy is lower in every age category than in China. It’s Simpson’s paradox
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by kaiabwpdjqn 7y ago
It’s a stupid concern. The reason the government is incompetent is that the government is incompetent. That’s not uniquely American, and there’s no evidence that race has played into any of this. We didn’t exactly change our tune when Italy
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by kaiabwpdjqn 7y ago
As an Asian American... no, I don’t think racism played into this at all. Would have been exactly the same if it started in London.
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by kaiabwpdjqn 7y ago
I think the real takeaway is from all this is that death rate is a pointless metric. It is highly dependent on the local demographics, it requires precise information which is rarely available, it is biased by the level of care available, i
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by kaiabwpdjqn 7y ago
There’s an important bit in this that depends on age. If you’re young and healthy, in addition to being less likely to die from the disease, you’re also less likely to acquire the disease (exposure level being held equal). If you’re older,
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by kaiabwpdjqn 7y ago
well it’s a good thing I didn’t suggest that
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by kaiabwpdjqn 7y ago
what is the treatment then?
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by kaiabwpdjqn 7y ago
My point is that medical staff are trained to respond to many things. Training newbies to respond to one thing would probably be easy and fast. Especially if most people just need fluids, oxygen, and aspirin. Burning out doctors to maximize
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by kaiabwpdjqn 7y ago
What do the healthcare workers actually do while caring for these people? Is this something that actually requires significant medical knowledge? What does arrest mean? Is that cardiac arrest? Is that how people are dying? If they’re dying
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by kaiabwpdjqn 7y ago
I doubt it would be a game changer. Grocery stores already collect this when you use a card for discounts (They’ll never say no if you ask to put on the store card though...)
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by kaiabwpdjqn 7y ago
anyone know if this tech can handle adversarial images? Is it even computer vision based?
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by kaiabwpdjqn 7y ago
The data was small but seemed to be worse for former smokers. That’s hard to judge though, because former smokers are likely to have quit due to health problems. I haven’t seen any useful stats on infection rates but I think that’s an inter
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by kaiabwpdjqn 7y ago
Ok but what I’m looking for is an actual example of an intractable problem. Breaking crypto is one, I guess, but it’s also one that makes everything worse, so I don’t take that as a useful outcome.
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by kaiabwpdjqn 7y ago
I noticed this smoker effect early on! Data from China was showing about 20% of the infected population was smokers, while smoking is closer to 60% in Chinese men (by cursory google search). The death rates were much higher for infected smo
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by kaiabwpdjqn 7y ago
> It took hundreds of hours of human review time to find a single OCR mistake from this process! This stands out to me as improbable. Not in that the error rate could be that low, but in that they actually had humans spend hundreds of ho
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by kaiabwpdjqn 7y ago
That makes a lot of sense to me, but it doesn’t seem to be the case and I don’t understand why. Is it oil prices down -> large oil based economies at risk due to vastly lower margins -> global instability from inability to make paymen
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by kaiabwpdjqn 7y ago
That was my point of confusion on the charts for symptomatic people. I’m assuming that the relatively high rates of non symptomatic individuals implies they’re testing people without symptoms in a somewhat random sample style
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by kaiabwpdjqn 7y ago
I feel like all of those concerns are nullified if you just don’t quit your job before lining up another... which is what people usually do.
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by kaiabwpdjqn 7y ago
I feel like I acknowledged that in my post. Most relevant concerns for “why don’t you just leave” are around having enough money to pay for basic needs, having other jobs, or finding a place that works for your geographic situation. This gu
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by kaiabwpdjqn 7y ago
I find this post to be relatively unimpressive. He spends a great amount of time complaining about how the company was shit in a way that implies he was personally offended, but the title says he got a generous salary for little expected wo
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by kaiabwpdjqn 7y ago
Death rates aside, it looks like younger people are less likely to even get the disease (not especially surprising). If you exclude the really young people, even the 30 year olds would likely be under represented (I think). One implication
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by kaiabwpdjqn 7y ago
Hmm. I think I get this on occasion. It sounds like a heavily distorted electronic crunchy buzz like if you touched a guitar jack to some random metal while hooked up to an amp. I had previously thought these might be “brain zaps” that peop
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by kaiabwpdjqn 7y ago
I guess. But we already optimize these things. Without any specific domain in mind, I wonder how much better we could get. Like maybe amazon could find the global minimum cost to route, but right now it’s getting pretty darn close. Or maybe

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